Topic: Lawyers on crack
Anonymous A started this discussion 14 years ago #21,481
Apple v. Samsung judge, at wit's end, asks if lawyers are "smoking crack"
Testimony in the giant Apple v. Samsung patent trial is entering its final hours, and nerves are fraying on all sides. US District Judge Lucy Koh shouted at lawyers this morning, demanding to know how she could be expected to go through 75 pages of objections to witnesses that aren't going to have time to testify anyways.
"You want me to do an order on 75 pages tonight? When, unless you're smoking crack, you know that these witnesses are not going to be called?" Koh shouted at Apple lawyers. "Who is going to call all these witnesses when you have less than four hours left?"
"You want me to do an order on 75 pages tonight? When, unless you're smoking crack, you know that these witnesses are not going to be called?" Koh shouted at Apple lawyers. "Who is going to call all these witnesses when you have less than four hours left?"
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 5 minutes later[^] [v] #341,788
"Your honor, first of all, I'm not smoking crack," said Apple lawyer Bill Lee. "We have timed it out."
Apple lawyer Michael Jacobs also stepped forward, assuring her that they had done a time test, and could get through 20 witnesses today and tomorrow in its rebuttal case against Samsung. "We didn't mean to burden the court," he said.
"You filed 75 pages of objections!" shouted Koh. "What do you mean you didn't mean to burden the court?"
Koh promised Apple's lawyers that if they were overshooting the mark in their estimates, she would think of a penalty. "If it turns out I will have gone through 75 pages of objections for people who are not realistically expected to be called, then I'm going to think up a proper tax for that," she said
Apple lawyer Michael Jacobs also stepped forward, assuring her that they had done a time test, and could get through 20 witnesses today and tomorrow in its rebuttal case against Samsung. "We didn't mean to burden the court," he said.
"You filed 75 pages of objections!" shouted Koh. "What do you mean you didn't mean to burden the court?"
Koh promised Apple's lawyers that if they were overshooting the mark in their estimates, she would think of a penalty. "If it turns out I will have gone through 75 pages of objections for people who are not realistically expected to be called, then I'm going to think up a proper tax for that," she said
(Edited 1 minute later.)
squeegeebot9K !firstkPE1Q joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 1 day later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #341,978
Handel !tYHPZ2dvu6 joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 44 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #341,996
The whole trial is ridiculous. The case should be thrown out purely because Apple's design patents are so generic.